Basically there was so much traffic, from the bank and the holiday, that nintendo couldn't manage it and delayed the date. I'm really bummed, I was going to wonder trade sooo much stuff today. Hopefully it gets resolved quickly and we can have it by the end of next week.

For those interested however, the bank was up in Japan for a short while, and people managed to transfer quite a few pokemon in that time, so there's some inaccessbile pokemon available on the GTS. Be wary though, some of them are hacked.

I'm happy a few koffings out there have made it on the gts and I was able to snag one. I'm currently in the process of mass breeding them so if anybody is interested in one and has me on their friend's list hit me up, Hideo_Kojima.

Edit - depending on how long the bank is closed, this has literally driven up demand for the pokemon in the other games but they're out there.

Well, I used it. It worked. Transferred all my Pokémon from Black 2 to X. No items are transferred. You can only transfer from box 1 (Black 2) and you can't launch the bank without the X cartridge in, so it took a good long while to transfer everything. At least I got a Celebi!